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PMHP at UCLA California Behavioral Health Services Act ACT/FACT Center of Excellence Website
The Public Mental Health Partnership (PMHP) at UCLA will provide training to ACT and FACT providers in California to support implementation and fidelity. PMHP’s training curriculum is built on four core approach pillars: Recovery-oriented Care, Trauma-informed Care, Harm Reduction, and Systems-oriented Care, and encompasses the ACT service delivery model and team approach, evidence-based practices, and relevant clinical competency areas. Training will be offered online via live training sessions and self-paced (asynchronous) courses.
Behavioral Health Centers of Excellence (COE) Resource Hub
The Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has established Centers of Excellence (COE) to offer training and technical assistance and fidelity monitoring to behavioral health delivery systems and behavioral health practitioners implementing Evidence-Based Practices (EBP). Specific activities conducted by COEs will include: Training. Certification and Medi-Cal Designation for specific EBPs. Technical assistance. Fidelity monitoring. Other supports to deliver EBPs through a culturally sensitive lens.
Psychotherapeutic Techniques With Older Adults Part 3: Psychotherapeutic Services for Older Adults With Psychotic Disorders
Older adults exhibit psychotic symptoms for many different reasons. Treatment may require medical and psychiatric intervention, family support, linkages to community services, and more. The role of psychotherapy with older adults that experience psychosis has received little attention. This presentation will describe a psychotherapeutic approach to treating older adults with psychotic symptoms based on the literature and the presenter's clinical experience. The approach includes outreach to identify individuals in need of help; clinical engagement to develop a working relationship, linkage with needed services, and helping ...
Psychotherapeutic Techniques With Older Adults Part 2: Mental Health Services With Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment
This training will outline different types of cognitive impairment often found among older adults. Given a common understanding that mental health services for persons with “dementia” or cognitive impairment cannot be billed for, the presenter will describe Medi-Cal regulations regarding insurance billing for mental health services for persons with cognitive impairment who also have a co-occurring mental illness. This presentation will describe common emotional and other internal experiences of persons with cognitive impairment. There will be a discussion of psychotherapeutic and other mental health interventions ...
Psychotherapeutic Techniques With Older Adults Part 1: Enhancing Meaning With Older Adults
Later life can often be a time of many different losses, such as the loss of friends or loved ones, the loss of physical functioning and/or health, the loss of cognitive acuity, and the loss of status. When clients have experienced several of these losses, it can present challenges to mental health professionals regarding how to encourage improved mood and mental health when interpersonal, physical, social, and financial resources are narrowed. This training will present several approaches within mental health interventions that can help older ...
Psychotherapeutic Techniques With Older Adults Training Series
Later life can often be a time of many different losses, such as the loss of friends or loved ones, the loss of physical functioning and/or health, the loss of cognitive acuity, and the loss of status. When clients have experienced several of these losses, it can present challenges to mental health professionals regarding how to encourage improved mood and mental health when interpersonal, physical, social, and financial resources are narrowed. This series will present several approaches within mental health interventions that can help older ...
Suicide Prevention
Suicide is a serious public health concern and is among the leading causes of death in the United States. Those who attempt or complete suicide are often stigmatized. Service providers are challenged with offering support to vulnerable populations who are at greater risk of suicide than the norm. National efforts have focused on identifying risk factors and strategies to prevent suicide. This training provides an overview of both suicide assessment and prevention and offers in-depth statistics with an emphasis on risk factors and warning signs ...
Setting Clients Up for Success With Behavioral Rehearsal Skills Training
We all need skills to effectively navigate and manage life’s challenges. When we don’t have effective coping skills, however, we can feel overwhelmed, anxious, dysregulated, and stressed. Behavioral rehearsal strategies are incredibly effective in supporting a person as they develop new coping skills to help manage stress and stressful situations. When we go beyond simply discussing new skills to practicing them, we are setting clients up for success by teaching them how to use the tools in their lives. During this workshop, we highlight the ...
Enhancing Depression Treatment With Behavioral Activation
Behavioral activation is one of the most important and effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills used for treating depression. Despite its tremendous efficacy, it is very under-utilized in practice. In this workshop, we’ll cover the rationale and elements of behavioral activation and then practice using this highly useful strategy with real client scenarios. If you are working with individuals who struggle with the symptoms associated with depression, this is a great addition to your practice.
Motivational Interviewing in Clinical Supervision
Clinical supervisors are responsible for multiple tasks, including ensuring ethical practice, adherence to organizational policies, enhancing skill development, and addressing clinician personal wellbeing. Surprisingly, there has been no consolidation of evidence around the success of any given model of supervision. Motivational interviewing (MI) has demonstrated success in multiple settings where change is the desired outcome. Through this training, supervisors can strengthen their ability to lead effectively using an evidence-based style of communication that has been shown to build strong engagement, resolve ambivalence, and facilitate change. The ...
